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Abstract
Cholecystographic studies of 23 patients during the first week of convalescence from
acute pancreatitis indicated nonvisualization of the gall bladder in 11 instances
and impaired function in an additional 4 instances (total of 65 per cent). Cholecystograms
during follow-up studies or surgical exploration indicated that these patients had
no organic disease of the gall bladder. The return of cholecystic function, as indicated
by cholecystography, characteristically occurred within a month after the symptoms
of acute pancreatitis had subsided.
During the first week of illness with acute pancreatitis, a cholecystogram is of diagnostic
assistance only if the gall bladder is visualized, for nonvisualization at this time
does not necessarily indicate organic cholecystic disease.
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Publication history
Received:
April 20,
1955
Footnotes
☆Supported in part by the Cora and Webb Mading Fund for Surgical Research.
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© 1955 Published by Elsevier Inc.
